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Mary Marcuccio knows all about the toll of opiate abuse: Her son became addicted to prescription painkillers that he first obtained from a friend's medicine cabinet. "Our story is typical," said Marcuccio, a former Southington resident who runs a consulting business helping other parents of drug addicts. Her son, now 26, moved from crushing and snorting prescription pain pills to using heroin. Marcuccio believes his descent into addiction might have been thwarted by new manufacturing technology that's designed to curb the abuse of prescription painkillers called opioids. Pharmaceutical companies have developed techniques that prevent powerful opioids, such as...

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Mary Marcuccio knows all about the toll of opiate abuse: Her son became addicted to prescription painkillers that he first obtained from a friend's medicine cabinet.
"Our story is typical," said Marcuccio, a former Southington resident who runs...

MIDDLETOWN – Consumers would no longer pay a sales tax on over-the-counter-drugs, but they would continue to pay taxes on clothing and footwear costing less than $50 under a proposal outlined Monday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Both taxes were imposed in...

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Cheshire has named a new chief executive, David L. Hallal, to replace current CEO and company founder Dr. Leonard Bell, effective April 1.Bell will continue to serve as chairman of the board of directors, the company...

MERIDEN — Connecticut's U.S. senators are trying to put public pressure on the Centers for Disease Control to buy flu vaccines from a local drug company, escalating Sen. Richard Blumenthal's private lobbying.The senators sent a letter to the CDC...

CaroGen Corp. will establish a laboratory at UConn's Technology Incubation Program in Farmington to develop its vaccine technology research, the company is announcing Monday.
The Hamden-based biotechnology company has four employees and hopes to grow...

This month, negotiations over the Trans-Pacific Partnership resume in Australia. Officials from the United States and 11 other major economies are meeting to settle the final details of the trade pact, with the hope of passing the final deal by year's...

For months, Advanced Grow Labs LLC — one of Connecticut's four medical marijuana growing companies — slogged through the process of competing for a state license, securing local zoning approvals, and outfitting a building to state regulations that are...

Our 14-year-old son seems depressed, to us, at least. His principal sees no sign of depression but thinks he's socially anxious. The subjects of counseling and medication have come up. We have suggested to him that he get more exercise and spend less time...

WETHERSFIELD — For 30 years, this health-care quality improvement company has faced next to no competition.
Qualidigm, founded in 1983, heavily depends on government contracts, and most of its work is collaborating with nursing homes, hospitals, visiting...

Pfizer Inc on Tuesday left investors guessing whether it would renew its pursuit of its British rival, AstraZeneca, but said it was considering other deals.The largest U.S. drug maker reported higher-than-expected second-quarter revenue, helped by growing...

Marinus Pharmaceuticals, an eight-person company working on a drug that may be effective against epileptic seizures, went public Thursday with a stock price of $8 a share.The shares traded as high as $8.16 on Thursday on the NASDAQ exchange, and closed at...

Dubbed Next Generation Connecticut, an unprecedented plan to invest $2.1 billion into science, technology, engineering and math — STEM — at the University of Connecticut will strengthen the school's competitiveness and productivity. But there lurks a...

Connecticut needs to help the tiny group of mentally ill people trapped in the revolving door of madness, homelessness, hospitalization and prison simply because they won't take their medication.
This state should join the 44 others that allow...

In 2010, around the time that Holly Church and her husband had begun talking about starting a family, she was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.
"I was told that after the chemo, my fertility might be taken away from me," said Church, of...

Toxicology tests show that Adam Lanza had no alcohol or drugs in his body when he shot and killed 20 first-graders and six women at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on Dec. 14.
The tests were conducted as part of the autopsy by state Chief Medical...

Do you remember the last time your blood pressure was checked and what the numbers were? While knowing your blood pressure numbers is important, it’s also good to know what those numbers mean and if you should take action to help lower them.
High blood...

I have obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD.
I suffer from mainly obsessive OCD, which is characterized by repetitive intrusive thoughts. The symptoms of a person with the purely obsessive form of OCD are very different from those associated with...

For most people, Halloween means confronting the fears that assail us from the outside — ghouls and vampires and zombies. But for me this season, I've come to realize that the most perverse demons can lurk within.
For many years, my family, friends and...

Not only do women hold up half the sky. We do it while carrying a 500-pound purse.
Women carry with us, at all times, everything we might need to start life in a new state. Our purses contain the all the merchandise found in a Quickie Mart or a...

To all appearances, Connecticut is well on the way to making medical marijuana available to people who are suffering from certain serious illnesses. Regulations have been drafted and will be voted on by a legislative committee next month. Physicians...